[c-nsp] New Catalyst 6k chassis

Andrew Miehs andrew at 2sheds.de
Wed Jun 26 19:16:19 EDT 2013


The 6708 supports up to 880 Gb per slot - whatever that means ....

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On 27/06/2013, at 5:10, Gert Doering <gert at greenie.muc.de> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 04:38:16PM +0100, Phil Mayers wrote:
>>> Can someone confirm rumors about the new Catalyst 6k chassis ?
>>> The new Catalyst 6807-XL chassis will be able to scale up to 220-880Gbps
>>> per slot with feature linecards/sup. The chassis will be compatible with
>>> the current SUP2T supervisor.
>> 
>> These are on the website now, for the curious.
> 
> Doesn't particularily satisfy my curiousity :-) - the 6807XL so far is
> "just a new chassis for -2T line cards", as there's no ultra-high-speed
> supervisor or line card yet.  Marketing this as "investment protection" 
> for brand new 2T stuff is... interesting, though.
> 
> Makes me wonder, though, which platform will survive in the end - 6500 
> (with 6800 included), 7600, Nexus 7k, or ASR9k...  with 3-4 different OSes
> as well.
> 
> gert
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